. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. POLYGALA branched shrub, 3-8 ft. high, with large, showy fls. near the ends of tlie branches: Ivs. flat, variable in shape, but not subulate: lateral petals 2-lobed, the posterior lobe ear-shaped, reflexed S. Africa.—Var. ^andiflbra, Hook {P grandtfldia Hoit and L B C
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. POLYGALA branched shrub, 3-8 ft. high, with large, showy fls. near the ends of tlie branches: Ivs. flat, variable in shape, but not subulate: lateral petals 2-lobed, the posterior lobe ear-shaped, reflexed S. Africa.—Var. ^andiflbra, Hook {P grandtfldia Hoit and L B C 13 1227 not i-J-^ i^} POLTGONATUM 1391. 1875 Polygala pauctfoha Walt ) Fls over : P Diilmai>,id>ia w above virgita, Thunb. Glabrous shrub, 2-5 or even ft. high, with rod-like branches terminating: in many-fld., leafless racemes of purple or flesh-colored fls.: anterior sepals distinct: wings obtuse. S. Afr. —The typical form is advertised in S. Calif., but in Eu. probably the only form cult, is var. specidsa. Haw. {P. specidsa, Sims). Glabrous: lower Ivs. obovate or cuneate, upper more linear, all obtuse: raceme long and lax: bracts soon deciduous. S. Afr. 1780. ' 7:621. 2:150. B. 1:43. apop6taIa, T. S. Brandegee. Frutescent, 2-3 ft. high: branches slender, pubescent: Ivs. lanceolate, en- tire, obtuse, alternate, remote, short-petioled, nearly glabrous: fls. large, pink, on slender pedicels H in. or more long; sepals 4, the upper and lower small, equal, cymbiform, margins ciliate, the lateral very large, nearly orbicular; petals 5, separate, upper strap-shaped, two-thirds as long as keel, lateral pointed, less than one- half as long, embraced with the 8 stamens by the large cymbiform keel, which is opened on the upper and lower edge and not cristate, or appendaged: seeds 2, large, ovoid, pubescent. Lower Calif. amatymbica, Eckl. & Zeyn. (P. acuminata, E. Mey. & Hort. (?), not Willd.). Densely tufted, erect, 3-6 in. high: Ivs. lanceolate acum
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